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1000 Pesetas "Emprèstit Pau Claris" of Catalonia
| Issuer | Govern Provisional de Catalunya (Provisional Government of Catalonia) |
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| Year | 1925 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | EMPRÈSTIT DE CATALUNYA ESTAT CATALÀ 1000 PESSETES EMISSIÓ DEL 23 D'ABRIL DE 1925 PEL GOVERN PROVISIONAL DE CATALUNYA TITOL Nº (Translation: Loan of Catalonia. Catalan State. 1000 Pesetas. Issue of April 23, 1925. By the Provisional Government of Catalonia. Title No.) |
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| Reverse lettering | PER LA LLIBERTAT DE CATALUNYA PER LA CULTURA DELS CATALANS BONS DE L'EMPRÈSTIT DE CATALUNYA LA VALOR D'AQUEST PAPER-MONEDA SERÀ RECONEGUDA I FETA EFECTIVA AMB 1000 PESETES OR, TANTOST ESTIGUI CONSTITUÏT I INSTAURAT PLENAMENT L'ESTAT CATALÀ Exigeixi's aquest bitllet, en bestreure la quantitat per adquirir-lo. PER LA RIQUESA CATALANA PER LA PAU SOCIAL EMPRÈSTIT "PAU CLARIS" PRESIDENT QUE FOU DE LA PRIMERA REPÚBLICA CATALANA PEL MILLORAMENT I DIGNIFICACIÓ DEL PROLETARIAT (Translation: For the freedom of Catalonia. For the culture of the Catalans. Bonds of the Catalan loan. The value of this paper-money will be recognized and made effective with 1000 gold Pesetas, as soon as the Catalan State is fully constituted and established. This note will be demanded by paying the amount to acquire it. For Catalan wealth. For social peace. Loan "Pau Claris", who was president of the first Catalan Republic. For the improvement and dignification of the proletariat.) |
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This note was never legal tender in any conventional sense. The "Emprèstit Pau Claris" was a patriotic loan instrument issued by Catalan nationalist circles in exile, not a functioning provisional government with territorial control — the title "Govern Provisional de Catalunya" was aspirational, a political statement printed on paper during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, when any such activity inside Spain carried serious legal risk.
Pau Claris, the 17th-century president of the Generalitat who briefly placed Catalonia under French protection during the Reapers' War of 1640, was a deliberate and pointed choice of namesake. Miquel Soldevila's involvement signals this was produced with genuine artistic intent, not haste.